“So many of the nursing blogs I see are those from very frustrated unhappy nurses.” (as seen on a thread in nursingvoices.com) How true do you think this is? I saw this the other day and I wondered how guilty I am of being one of those frustrated, unhappy nurses. I am one week into…

Welcome to this week’s Change of Shift. I’ve been sitting at my computer all day waiting for an inspiring theme to land on my lap, but guess what? It’s just not happening. So sit back and enjoy these finely crafted blog posts in my themeless edition of Change of Shift! Patient Encounters I was pretty…

Make a list – Nurses are masters of list-making. Lists are the secret to time management. At the beginning of every shift a nurse makes a list of every thing she will do throughout the day. If it’s not on the list, it doesn’t get done. There are days when I am lazy and don’t…

Okay, I am now officially having a bad day: Drinking a couple of cups of coffee a day has long been considered safe during pregnancy, but a new study finds that even this modest amount of caffeine could double a woman’s risk of miscarriage. NOOOOO! Not my coffee. I don’t just love my coffee in…

I was just perusing some design blogs and came across this. Apparently my new blog redesign is “3 columns of idiocy.” You see? This is why I never made it as a web designer. It’s a good thing there are so many free wordpress themes out there, because it might be time to choose another…

I think I’ve found a new career option: Digital Coach. According to Seth Godin digital coaches are… “…people who charge $100 an hour to hear what you do and how you do it and then show you how to do it better. People who organize data and put it in the right place. People who…